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that is to say from the heads of the Branches of Birds and
Mattawoman Creek to Indian and Swanson's Creek as afore-
said, That is to say M^r Robert Mason & M^r James Keech for
S^t Marys County, M^r John Bayne and M^r James Bigger for
Charles County, M^r William Hutchison, and M^r Thomas
Greenfield for Prince Georges County who are required and
enjoyned by this Act att or before the Twenty third day of
Aprill as aforesaid to Cause the said Two lines from the head
of Birds Creek Branch to the head of Indian Creek Branch
and from the head of Mattawoman Branch to Swansons
Creek Branch fully to be marked and lined by a double line
of Marked Trees That the same maybe known and perceived
by all persons desireing to know the same and shall returne a
Certificate of the due Courses thereof one to each County
Concerned that is to say S^t Marys, Charles, and Prince
George's Countys and make Certificate to his Excellency the
Governor and Councill to be recorded in the Councill Records

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and each County Courts Records aforesaid under the penalty
of one Thousand pounds of Tobacco to each person hereby
nominated and Appointed failing and Two Thousand pounds
of Tobbacco to the Surveyor failing one halfe to the Informer
the other halfe to the Vestry of the Parish where the Offender
dwells to be recovered in any Court of Record within this
Province by Action of debt Bill plaint or Information wherein
no Essoyn protection or Wager of Law to be Allowed And
be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid by and with
the Advice and Consent aforesaid That the place for holding
the County Court of S^t Marys County shall forever hereafter
be att the City of S^t Marys in the State house of the said City
there formerly built att the Cost and Charge of this province
and in no other place of the said County whatsoever the same
State house being hereby Allotted and appointed by this
present Generall Assembly to the County of S^t Marys for
holding and keeping theire Courts in and such other decent
Services as to the Justices of the same County in full Court
shall be Consented and agreed to And be it further Enacted
by the Authority aforesaid by and with the advice and Con-
sent aforesaid That from and after the Twenty third day of
Aprill next after the end of this present Sessions of Assembly
the Island of Kent shall be Added to and made part of Talbott
County and Deemed reputed and Taken as part thereof And
That that part of Talbott County lying on the North side of
Corsecia Creek running up the main Eastern Branch to the
head thereof and then with a Course drawn East to the out
side of this Province shall be the Southerly Bounds of the

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County of Kent and on the North by the County of Cecill any
Law Statute or usage heretofore to the Contrary notwith-